American Leftists declared it wrongthink and Big Tech overlords banned anyone who wanted to discuss it.
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aadvark69 commented on Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API reddit.com/r/reddit/comme... · Posted by u/throw7
The exact same thing will happen when the IAMA girl was fired, or when the Ellen Pao controversy ignited.
Overall: nothing.
If all of Facebooks gaffs have failed to bring it down, this surely won't bring down Reddit.
Neither of of those examples materially affected usability or accessibility. This does.
aadvark69 commented on Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API reddit.com/r/reddit/comme... · Posted by u/throw7
My assumption is that there won't be a mass exodus from Reddit, at least not one that materially affects Reddit's bottom line. People will grumble, but most of them will continue to go there as before. I'm just basing this off historical episodes of internet outrage.
For comparison, when Digg 2.0 came out, people just moved to Reddit immediately, they didn't complain about it on Digg, and vow to leave eventually. They just left and never looked back. I'm generalizing; of course there are counterexamples.
I think we've made an internet where there aren't a ton of viable competitors, so there is no easy path out. The choice is to either get the dopamine hit from the same place as before, or forego the dopamine hit altogether, and for a lot of people the answer is clear.
I'd love to be wrong about this though.
There will absolutely be a material DAU change almost immediately.
aadvark69 commented on The VC Downturn in 6 Charts news.crunchbase.com/ventu... · Posted by u/elsewhen
Need a wartime CEO, right?
https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceo-wartime-ceo/
Although personally, I’m not seeing chatGPT bulldoze the world just yet. They need to monetize it, which means ads. Are they better at ads than the others? It’s not a given
Is it ok to predict that, like so many things before, the noise of chatGPT will die out more quickly than we imagine?
They can monetize with their plugin (aka apps) ecosystem. Take 10% of each transaction.
aadvark69 commented on March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened openai.com/blog/march-20-... · Posted by u/zerojames
Serious question: Why do people feel it's necessary to use a redis cluster?
I understand in early 2000s we were using spinning disks and it was the only way. Well, we don't use spinning disks any more, do we?
A modern server can easily have terabytes of RAM and petabytes of NVMe, so what's stopping people from just using postgres?
A cluster of radishes is an anti-pattern.
Better concurrency (10k vs ~200 max connections compared to postgres). ~20x faster than Postgres at Key-value read/write operations. (mostly) single threaded, so atomicity is achieved without the synchronicity overhead found in RDBMS.
Thus, it's much cheaper to run at massive scale like OpenAI's for certain workloads, including KV caching
also:
- robust, flexible data structures and atomic APIs to manipulate them are available out-of-the box
- large and supportive community + tooling
aadvark69 commented on Things I Learned from My 2 Year Old Baby Girl madeincosmos.substack.com... · Posted by u/exolymph
What was the point of this comment?
aadvark69 commented on Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn bbc.com/news/business-638... · Posted by u/sizzle
What “unprofitable” companies are you talking about? Most of the layoffs have come from very profitable companies that trimmed a lot of fat they acquired.
Meta, Amazon, Stripe, Twilio, Salesforce etc are all profitable companies. That’s where the majority of non crypto layoffs came from.
Twilio is NOT profitable
If I were building a new startup in 2023, I would need a mountain of evidence against using Spanner. It's ugly that it locks you into GCP but hey an iPhone locks you into Apple's ecosystem, that's just the price you pay to get good things.
* unless you need timeseries, columnar, FTS, geospatial, graph or something special like that